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High politics and Hellfire: William Hogarth

Robin Simon FSA · Gresham College

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About

Infamous rake (and Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir Francis Dashwood was the founder of the Hellfire Club whose avowed flouting of all moral and sexual decency and the deliberate offending of religion brought about inevitable public outcry. It was for this reason that William Hogarth painted Sir Francis Dashwood at his Devotions, portraying the aristocratic libertine in the posture of St Francis at prayer, replacing the Bible with a copy of an erotic novel and placing a naked woman as the supposed image of his concentration.

The talk

  1. High politics and Hellfire: William Hogarth 2008-11-03 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Robin Simon FSA
Year
2008
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics, History, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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